• @hellequin67@lemmy.zip
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    2313 days ago

    Sorry to say this but if the population is so easily brainwashed then maybe they can’t be trusted with gun ownership.

    • Victor
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      1813 days ago

      Why are they so brainwashed though? Because the government doesn’t help with education? 🤷‍♂️ (Serious question.)

      • @WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world
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        2013 days ago

        Public education in the US is a system of propaganda-loaded indoctrination designed to stifle critical thinking.

        • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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          Because it is implemented state by state. The basics of the 3Rs are universal, and not state determined. The Federal government should be overseeing the public education curriculum, not the individual states. Those who whine about liberal indoctrination are just pissed because THEY wanted to be doing the indoctrinating.

          In reality, schools aren’t interested in liberal or conservative indoctrination, they want to teach Critical Thinking Skills. That should be a bipartisan position, but conservatives have come to despise Critical Thinking Skills because it turns out that CTS are the best defense to the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

        • Arkhive (they/she)
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          Child of two public educators. I’m going to disagree to an extent. There are radical teachers. They push back against standards based education because they see how it pushes an agenda from the top, rather than cater needs to the local community and individual students. There’s a lot more of these teacher than you think, and they are honestly heroes. It is thankless, low paying, emotionally and physically draining work. Like I can understand the ways they kind of messed up raising me when I think about the hundreds, maybe thousands, of other kids lives they improved, and in some cases saved.

        • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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          13 days ago

          I like how someone downvoted this when it is objectively true. Your comment butt hurt them right in the patriotism.

    • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      I hate the excuse “people are stupid.”

      That’s both a truism and misleading. We’ve always had monkey brains. The issue is that humans are psycologically vulnerable to technologically enhanced attention-grabbing feeds; regulating that is on business and government, and it has little to do with the education system or gun laws.